June 2010
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“There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”
– Dick Cavett
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“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions....”
– Lao-Tze
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.”
– Basho
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the...”
– from ‘Siddartha’ by Hermann Hesse (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes, lydianea) (via melancholynotes)
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You Who Never Arrived by Rainer Maria Rilke →
You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don’t even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me - the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and unsuspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life...
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Solitude
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do...
